The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-11-15
THE WAYS TO WEALTH.
Some Common Sense Advice for
the Discontinued by Gail
Hamilton.

We seem to have entered upon an
era of organization. The discomfort
ed have one sovereign remedy-to de-
stroy what is now organized and to
organize anew. Organization is 3
powerful force, but unless it is con-
trolled by intelligence it is rope of
sand. Organization creates no new
faculties in man or beast or any form
of mind or matter. 1t can only utilize
what already exists. Organization
cannot overthrow natural law. 1t is
useful only as it harmonizes with and
avails itself of natural law, q club, u
party, a nation, that should found IT.
self on the principle that men hate
life, that mind has no expansive
rover, that mothers love is selfish
and disastrous trait and to be obliter-
ated from organization. FalsehoOd is
Inherently and essentially disinte-
orator. 1t is only the truth in false
systems that holds them together.
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
I have seen two men starting out in
life side by side. one with only bis own
hands to help him, the other with
house and lands and money inherited
from his father-men of the same sta
ton in life and of the same family
connection. Both married good girls
and reared family-the poor man a
larger family than the rich man. To
day their conditions in life are exactly
reversed. The poor man who had
nothing but his health and his hands,
who paid rent and earned every cent
he ever held, to-day owns his house,
his small farm, his cow, has q snug
little sum at interest, is still earning
money, takes a holiday when he
chooses, is a capitalist, intelligent,
contented, respected and happy, at
friendship with all the world. The
other man has lost house, farm, money,
is living in kinsman's house, half on
charity, half only on convenience, is
chiefly supported by the unceasing toll
IF his devoted wife without any
especial vice, is perfectly respectable,
but has no voice in the neighborhood
movements, is never consulted about
church or parish or school or lecture,
and has q constant sense OF being
wronged. If he were in an anarchie
neighborhood he would take as natur.
ally to anarchy as pine shaving to
Browning's blue squirt OF a lighted
match.
1t seems to me that the difference
here was in the men themselves, not
in government or society or laws or
tyranny. The man who now owns
real estate is not q "robber baron.
| 1t was not his Oppressive capital
that lost his neighbor a farm. The
"wage-system" had not "nlade a slave
of him it had made him capitalist
It was not workers in the tenements
oilers in the brown-stone fronts tina
pulled down the one man or set vi
the other. The worker in the ten
ement, by constant industry and fru
gality became owner of the brown
stone front-a very modest brown
stone front-good pine clapboard
painted brown. but inclosing just a
much family comfort and happiness
as the real brown. stone. How is Il
possible toIcherish any grudge agains
ca pital so hardly and honestly earned
so bene6ciently enjoyed? Why mus
every man have a breech-loader ant
, know how to use it when this mar
has made so pleasant place for him
; self in life with his hoe and his awl
What can bombs and breech-loader
do for him.
What, indeed, can they do for tn
other man who lost his farm ? Hi
step-brother did not wrest it from
him. On the contrary, his step
brother has been his unfailing friend
But in the hot hay.days he and hi
men would leave work at o'clock
when the neighboring farmers kept q
J it till the moon rose. He had a
ample herd of COWS and abundan
, milk, so that a considerable quantit
, of skim milk was thrown away, Will
his step-brother always kept pig
| enough to drink the skim milk, b
the same more or less. Half loaves Q
bread little stale, .'cbunks" of cak
|. white-specked with mould, slice o
: two of beefsteek just turned, woul
| be lightly fed out to the hens an
: the waste beef-bone, but half stripped
/ thrown to the dogs. The step-brothe
r kept no dogs and made soup of th
< bones, and then burnt and beat tt
bones themselves to feed to the hens
stale bread was made into toast, an
cake into buildings, and beef int
,, hash, before ever a suspicion ha